The nursery schoolteacher and her friend Sabrina Gachette were gunned down in the street by two hooded men armed with a machine gun and a shot gun

Three men have been found guilty of murdering an innocent young mother who became caught up in a bloody drugs turf war during a night out celebrating her 24th birthday.

Nursery schoolteacher Sabrina Moss and her friend Sabrina Gachette were gunned down in the street by two hooded men armed with a machine gun and a shot gun.

Today, drug dealers Hassan Hussain, Yasin James and Martell Warren were convicted of Miss Moss's murder and the attempted murder of Miss Gachette after a 10-week trial at the Old Bailey.

Miss Moss' mother wept as the verdicts were delievered.

Jurors was told they were not the intended targets and were just in the wrong place in the wrong time, sheltering from the rain with a group of about 15 others outside a fast food restaurant in north west London.

Miss Moss was shot in the heart and died later in hospital. Miss Gachette was hit in the back by more than 50 gunshot pellets and was lucky to survive.

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The body of Sabrina Moss is carried into St Alphage Church in Burnt Oak, north London

The court was told Miss Moss, who had recently moved into a new flat in Neasden with her partner and their four-year-old son, had taken the day of Friday August 23 off work to get ready for her birthday party, meeting friends at home.

That evening they went to the Love & Liquor nightclub in Kilburn High Road, north west London, and throughout the night others joined their group.

Meanwhile, Warren, Hussain and James planned the shooting carefully, carrying out surveillance on their targets before launching their attack an hour before dawn outside the Woody Grill.

Miss Gachette, 25, said: "There was no warning. I thought someone had thrown a brick at me. Then because of the explosion I thought it was a firework.

"Sabrina was in front of me and that was when I heard her say she had been shot in her heart. That is the last thing I remember hearing her say.

"You hear of stabbings, gangland murders - you don't expect people to do things like this when there are innocent people around.

"It's scary to think that you are just out minding your own business and someone can creep up behind you and do something like that. They didn't know you and you know for sure you don't know them."

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Flowers at the entrance to the church for the funeral of Sabrina Moss

The women were thrown together with the intended targets of the shooting - members of the South Kilburn Gang - because it was raining on the night of the shooting and they had taken shelter under a shop awning by the Woody Grill.

The gunmen - Hassan Hussain and Yasin James - could not have failed to spot the young women in their party clothes amid the rest of the group dressed in casual streetwear, the court heard.

Dressed in a bright red dress and high heels, Miss Moss would have stood out from the crowd like a beacon in the night, the Old Bailey was told.

Regardless, Hussain discharged the Mac 10 "spray and pray" machine gun six times and James fired both barrels of the shotgun at near point blank range before fleeing in a car driven by Warren.

Although the exact reason for the shooting was unclear, it was connected to a drug-dealing turf war and deep-seated animosity with members of the South Kilburn Gang.

Prosecutor Mark Heywood QC said the attack took place against a "backdrop of violent tension and animosity" between the groups of young men.

"The reason for that is not clear but it was serious. It was deep-seated, so deep-seated that it was enough to occupy their activities for most of the darkness hours," he said

Hussain, 29, of Willesden; Warren, 23, from Kensal Green; and James, 20, from Wembley, were also found guilty two further counts of attempted murder - of Mahad Ahmed and Edson Da'Silva, possession of a Mac 10 machine gun with intent to endanger life, and possession of a shotgun with intent to endanger life.

And they were found guilty, along with a fourth defendant - Simon Baptiste, 29, from Cricklewood - of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm between August 22 and August 25 last year.

On the verdicts, Miss Gachette said: "Justice has not only been served for us as victims, it has been done for the community - there are violent people off the streets."

The court heard that Warren was a convicted drug dealer and member of the Kensal Green Boys or Bloods, known as the KGB.

There was heavy security in court when he gave evidence in the witness box and implicated Hussain and James in the shooting but denied his own involvement, saying he was just there to do a drug deal.

In turn, Hussain and James said Warren was a "dirty lying scumbag" who had only named them to protect the real killers.

Hussain had a history of violence, with a previous conviction for grievous bodily harm. He was jailed for five years for stabbing his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend six times.

James said in his evidence that he was affiliated to a different gang from Warren, the Wembley Forni Dons. Baptiste did not give evidence.

The jury was told that the Mac10 machine gun which killed Miss Moss had been used before in the West Midlands and in London in 2009, 2012, and January last year at the Poolcrest Snooker Club in Kilburn High Road.

Although there was no suggestion that Hussain carried out those shootings, police said the gang he was affiliated with had control of the gun.